Transforming Diabetes Health Care
Part 2. Changing Lives
- Cindy Hupke, RN, BS, MBA,
- Anne W. Camp, MD,
- Roger Chaufournier, MHSA,
- Gerald J. Langley, MS and
- Kevin Little, PhD
Abstract
In Brief
The Health Disparities Collaboratives initiative of the Department of Health and Human Services Bureau of Primary Health Care (described in the article on p. 102) has allowed hundreds of health centers around the country to improve process and clinical outcomes for people with diabetes. This article reports on the results of these efforts from facilities participating in the collaboratives.
Footnotes
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Cindy Hupke, RN, BS, MBA, lives in DeKalb, Ill., and is the IHI’s national director for the BPHC HDCs. Anne W. Camp, MD, is an internist and endocrinologist at the Fair Haven Community Center and a clinical instructor of medicine at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn. Roger Chaufournier, MHSA, is president and chief executive officer of Patient Infosystems in Rochester, NY, and serves on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health in Bethesda, Md. Gerald J. Langley, MS, is a statistician with Associates in Process Improvement in Cameron Park, Calif., and senior improvement advisor for the BPHC HDCs. Kevin Little, PhD, is a statistician based in Madison, Wisc., and serves as a BPHC collaboratives technical advisor.
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Note of disclosure: The authors are all paid consultants for the HDCs described in this article. Mr. Chaufournier is an employee and board member of Patient Infosystems, which provides disease management services for the health care industry, including the federal government. He is also a stock shareholder in Patient Infosystems, Pharmacia, and Solutia, all of which make products or provide services related to the treatment of diabetes.
- American Diabetes Association
